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José Ribeiro

José Ribeiro is the Head of the Section of Medical Entomology at the Laboratory of Malaria and Vector Research, National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Diseases. Dr. Ribeiro is a Medical Entomologist and has worked mainly in the role of vector arthropod salivary glands in feeding and parasite transmission. He also has an interest in population modeling and epidemiology. Dr. Ribeiro has served on several panels of the Tropical Disease Research Program (TDR) of the WHO (Biological Control of Vectors, Fieldmal, and Molecular Entomology), and served as a Chairman of the Molecular Entomology Steering Committee for five years. He holds an MD degree from the State University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and a Ph.D. in Biophysics from the Biophysics Institute of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro.

As of Jan 1, 2007, the advisory work formerly carried out by the Millennium Project secretariat team is being continued by an MDG Support team integrated under the United Nations Development Program.

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Investing in Development: A Practical Plan to Achieve the Millennium Development Goals
"Investing in Development brings together the core recommendations of the UN Millennium Project. By outlining practical investment strategies and approaches to financing them, the report presents an operational framework that will allow even the poorest countries to achieve the Millennium Development Goals by 2015."

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